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The Study Of New Literary Preface & Postscript

Posted on:2011-12-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L X PengFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225360305483616Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Preface and postscript (Preface & postscript), as an independent genre, has a long historical origin and writing tradition. Compared with any other era in Chinese history, the 20th century witnesses much better Preface & postscript, no matter in terms of quantity, quality, type, or the writers, and Preface & postscript written by New literary authors are especially brilliant and dazzling. The existence of a large number of New literary Preface & postscript, makes it necessary to do a separate research.This essay’s research method is as follows. starting from the historical origins of Preface & postscript, establishing New literary Preface & postscript as a kind of "paraliterature" in 20th-century literature, and it has the status of an independent genre. The studies are not only from the evolution of Preface & postscript on the body during the 20th century, but also explore the "relationship" between Preface & postscript and works (texts), writers, Literary Translation, the history of literature respectively, as well as the study full text of Preface & postscript. By using a of distant interdisciplinary studies and cross-sciencecross-interdisciplinary research, to make efforts to pursue such an macro-and micro-research study of the close combination and academic quality as laying equal stress on the basic and the frontier and showing the same splendor to the quality of succession and originality. This essay promotes the research of New literature Preface & postscript to a new height.The whole essay is divided into five chapters.The first chapter examines Preface & postscript of the history and the birth of New literary Preface & postscript. Since the Western Han Dynasty, Preface as an official genre was established.During the Tang Dynasty, Postscript as a genre, also began to appear. Preface & Postscript shaped their own location, both the division of labor and co-operation in the function. At the end of the Qing, Preface & postscript experienced a modern transformation, not only in form and content changes are groundbreaking, but also in the scope of use, performance forms are also expanded. After May 4th movement, New literature Preface & postscript was born at the same time as modern literary fiction, poetry, drama and prose. Owing to the establishment of the new literary genre standards, Preface & postscript is in a very embarrassing situation. In my opinion, New literature Preface & postscript is a form of "paraliterature."Chapter II deals with the multidimensional relationship between New literary Preface & postscript and literary works (texts). Preface & postscript, compared to the work (text), are not only subsidiary-it is the literary study join points of the external and internal; they also have independence, Preface & postscript and works (texts) form an relationship of interpretation and being interpretation. Preface & postscript reflect only the intentions of the writers and do not replace texts’(works’) intentions. From the text point of view, Preface & postscript as a "paratext", enabling readers to have a "look forward, as the threshold," and guided reading, and the body of this generation intertextuality and so on. From the view of communication, Preface & postscript recorded the works’publication, dissemination and acceptance. From the version’s point of view, Postscript is also an important resource of version criticism.Chapter III states the relationship between New literary Preface & postscript and writers as the starting point. First of all, discuss writers’view on Preface & postscript. In a large number of writing practice, the authors gave their views on whether Preface & postscript or not, functionality, content and writing. Secondly, analyze the writer from the point of Preface & postscript. From the authors’Preface & postscript, it can not only look at a writer’s life history, creation history, philosophy and literary advocate change, but also spy on different writers, critics, newspaper editors, publishers such as the friendship between the debates and complaints. Finally, classify and group the writer-related anecdotes witnessed and recorded by New literary Preface & postscript.Chapter IV studies Preface & postscript of translation overall. Preface & postscript includes Preface & postscript of originals and of translations. Preface & postscript of translation records foreign Literature participate in China’s construction of New literary history, and witness writers’translation practice,is an important part of New literature too. Preface & postscript of translation have motive, the purpose of translations which is the carrier of the theories of translation, and the platform of translated argue (criticism). It also witnesses the history of literary translation. It is not only a communication window for Chinese and foreign literature, but also the attempts of translators for comparative study of Chinese and foreign literature. It records the writer’s process to accept the extraterritorial. It can be seen cultural, political filtering and misunderstanding from Preface & postscript of translation. The study of Preface & postscript of translation, you can not only see writer’s lifelong translation activities, but also to learn about the work at different times of acceptance, understanding the acceptance and evaluation of translators at different times.Chapter V claims literature history meanings of New literary Preface & postscript from the relationship between Preface & postscript and literature history. As a mirror Of New literary, New literary Preface & postscript has a symbiotic literary history. For example, Preface & postscript are closely associated with every genre history of literature, literature and art history of ideas, history of community schools, and history of cultural publishing in close contact. New literary Preface & postscript is also involved in the construction of New literary history, such as Preface & postscripts of "A Comprehensive Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature (1917-1927)" established a new literary history of the stage, content, the mode of describing history and the writing patterns of history. During New literary history, but also there are some well-known Preface & postscript, such as "Spring," five people’s prefaces, the group prefaces of "sixteen modern writers’essays". The advents of these Preface & postscript were important events in the history of literature. In addition, the study of New literary Preface & postscript also have value and meaning of literary history. Such as raising the genre status of New literary Preface & postscript, established Preface & postscript’s genre features, in-depth study of the promotion of writers and their works, to provide a large number of historical details of New literary history and so on.In short, the essay is under the guidance of "broad concept of literature ", based on the existing literature classification and literature research, through the research on New literary Preface & postscript and the multidimensional relationship with work (text), author, translation and literary history to re-examine New literature and set up a new literature itself with integrity, richness, complexity.
Keywords/Search Tags:New literary Preface & postscript, paraliterature, text, literary history, broad concept of literature
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